Government ignores travel industry

Confirmed COVID-19 Cases # INFECTED: 1,032 # ACTIVE: 999 # DECEASED: 2 # RECOVERED: 31 # TESTED: 16,305 With its silence to the re-opening of borders the government risks the collapse the travel industry. This was declared today by the umbrella association Fenata in a...

Travel industry preparing restart

COVID-19 Cases in Namibia # INFECTED & IDENTIFIED: 16 # ACTIVE: 3 # DECEASED: 0 # RECOVERED: 13 # NEW: 0 The lifting of the lockdown on May 5 and the four-stage plan of the Namibian government to relax contact and travel restrictions have given the travel industry...

Tourist survives leopard attack

In the Kuiseb Canyon near the gravel road from Windhoek to Walvis Bay, a German motorhome traveler was attacked by a leopard at night. At the beginning of April, Hardy Specker (61) and his wife Petra Windmeisser (60) parked their camper van near the Kuiseb Bridge to...

Headlines – 14 to 18 May

+++ 18/05 – Namibia Tourism Board ordered to reinstate its financial manager, who was dismissed three years ago, and pay her 1.9 million Namibia Dollar compensation +++ 18/05 – While preparations for nationwide clean-up operation are in full swing, Government refuses...

Headlines in the morning

+++ Independence Day: President Geingob calls on all Namibians to create the foundation for broad-based economic growth +++ Farmers who are in arrears with their loan repayments to AgriBank protest against debt collection +++ Allocation of a farm in the Omaheke region...